Digital Media and Production Minor
College: College of Arts & Humanities
The Digital Media and Production minor is designed to prepare students to be adept at creating, producing, and critiquing digital written, oral, aural, and visual communication. Students will produce digital media that conforms to professional standards with respect to visual, written, and audio-standards. Critical skills will involve technical fluency, design principles, analytic skills, visual literacy, visual strategic communication, and an understanding of transmedia and the rhetoric of digital and visual communication.
- Gain technical fluency in visual digital design.
- Understand principles of visual design/communication.
- Produce/create (transmedia) digital content.
- Critically analyze transmedia digital content.
- Gain social media literacy.
Requirements for the Digital Media and Production Minor
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Required Courses | ||
| ART 104 | Introduction to Digital Art | 3 |
| COMM 168 | Introduction to Visual and Digital Communication | 3 |
| Select one of the following: | 1-3 | |
| Communication Internship 1 | ||
400-level internship from any department that has a significant digital media component | ||
| Elective Courses | ||
| Select five of the following: | 14-15 | |
| Introduction to Graphic Design | ||
| Typography I | ||
| Digital Photography 1 | ||
| Graphic Design I | ||
| Advanced Digital Photography 1 | ||
| Writing for Multimedia | ||
| Podcasting | ||
| Digital Storytelling | ||
| Advanced Media Production | ||
| Digital and Social Media 1 | ||
| Creative Writing: Screenplay 1 | ||
| Introduction to Film | ||
| History of Film to 1950 | ||
| History of Film from 1950 | ||
| Advanced Fiction Writing 1 | ||
| Alternative Narratives 1 | ||
| Film Genres | ||
| Digital Video | ||
| Studies in Film | ||
| Sound Production I | ||
| Sound Production II 1 | ||
| Sound Design | ||
| Queer Representation on Stage and Screen | ||
| Acting for the Camera 1 | ||
| Total Credits | 21-24 | |
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Indicates courses with prerequisite requirements.
University Requirements for Minors
Course work in the minor must be completed with the minimum GPA as specified by the department or program under which the minor falls, usually a 2.00 on a 4.00 scale, but higher in some programs. Transfer students must attain the minimum specified GPA on a combination of transfer credits accepted toward the minor and credits attempted at UW-Parkside.
At least half of the course work required for a minor must be completed at UW-Parkside.